Fed gov faces major M365 licensing change
The federal government will no longer be treated as a single Microsoft 365 customer from July, with agencies needing their own enterprise enrolments but still…
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Intelligence × Trust: the equation that will decide Australia’s AI winners
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at the Microsoft AI Tour in Sydney on 23 April, the headline was a A$25 billion commitment…
Telstra not seeking to lock rivals out of mobile-to-satellite bands
Telstra says it won’t seek to lock rivals out of 2GHz-range spectrum needed to provide mobile-to-satellite services (MSS) and meet the requirements of the federal…
Qld government digitises more licence credentials
The Queensland government has added more types of accreditation into its digital licence app, benefitting about 21,500 people. The latest cohorts to have their licences…
‘Copy Fail’ Linux privesc bug lay dormant in kernel since 2017
A logic flaw sitting undetected in the Linux kernel for nearly nine years lets any unprivileged local user gain root access on virtually every mainstream…
Amadeus to buy French biometrics firm Idemia Public Security
Spanish travel technology firm Amadeus has announced a plan to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, which is owned by Advent International, for 1.2 billion…
Macquarie Bank saves 130,000 hours in seven months of Gemini Enterprise use
Macquarie Bank says that “close to 80 percent” of its 5000 staff use Google’s Gemini Enterprise on a daily basis, seven months on from signing…
Always-on defence becomes critical as AI accelerates cyber threats: Infotrust
“Attackers have access to the same AI tools and technologies that we use to defend ourselves,” says Simon McKay, CEO of Cyber at Infotrust. In…
Incomplete fix for Fancy Bear exploit opens zero-click hole in Windows
Microsoft’s partial patching in February 2026 of a zero-day vulnerability abused by Russian state-sponsored threat group Fancy Bear created a new flaw that is now…
ABA says big tech tax gap putting payments at risk
The Australian Banking Association has warned that national payment systems are being placed at risk by a widening gap in the tax and regulatory obligations…
GitHub patches critical ‘git push’ remote code execution bug
Microsoft-owned open source code hosting platform GitHub has acknowledged and patched a critical vulnerability that allowed arbitrary remote code execution, following a report from Wiz…
NAB is building an “AI science” team
NAB is assembling an “AI science” team to drive adoption of the technology across the bank, headed up by a data scientist from McKinsey’s AI…